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Nicki Minaj’s Husband on House Arrest for Threatening Offset

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The move comes after a viral video in which Petty was seen apparently taunting Cardi B’s husband from outside a hotel where the rapper was thought to be staying.

Nicki Minaj and husband Kenneth Petty seen at a Marc Jacobs NYFW event in Manhattan on Feb. 12, 2020, in New York City.
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Nicki Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, has been ordered to spend 120 days on house arrest after threatening Cardi B’s husband on social media. A court order filed Wednesday notes that Petty’s “threatening remarks,” made in a video that went viral on Sept. 16, violate the terms of his probation for failing to register as a sex offender in an earlier case. In the video, Petty and his friends are seen taunting rapper Offset from outside a New York City hotel where he was thought to be staying. Offset shrugged off the apparent threats, calling Petty “funny.”

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